Saturday, October 15, 2011

iPhone 4S teardown: 512MB, tweaked battery, A5

A breakdown and analysis firm iSuppli iFixit, Chipworks and others show the iPhone as a mini version of the iPad 4S 2 in many ways.
Camera: A Sony CMOS sensor, according to Chipworks. Overall, the 8-megapixel camera, 60 percent more pixels than the camera on the iPhone 4 A larger aperture (f/2.4) and new sensors. Better in low light conditions. Video to 1080p, 30 fps.
Memory: 512 MB Chip Apple has A5 Samsung DDR2 RAM, depending on the iFixit teardown. Capacity is the second of the iPhone and iPad 4 Elpida (memory, combined operations of NEC and Hitachi) also provides RAM for 4S. The fact that the iPhone is still only use 512 4S "demonstrate the power of Apple's IOS operating system compared to other smartphones are nearly twice as much [space]," said iSuppli.
Battery: Apple has managed to increase the WHRS (watt hours) easily - precisely by five hundredths of Wh, according to iFixit. "Look more closely ... be careful ... because it is: an additional 0.05 WHRS the battery on the iPhone 4" - iFixit said. Talk time on 3G networks for the iPhone than the iPhone 4S 4 enhanced, writes iFixit - adding that there are 100 fewer hours of standby time on 4S. Just a few things to note.

Apples A5 system-on-a-chip (SoC): A5 seems to be made by Samsung and pretty much the same SoC, ie, according to Anandtech with 2 iPad, which has the simultaneous analysis of iFixit teardown. "At a high level, there are no surprises, A5 on the iPhone 4S practically identical to what is used in the iPad 2 - although it runs at a lower clock rate and voltage may be low as well," says Anandtech. Chipworks seem to agree.

Qualcomm: Qualcomm RTR8605 Multi-band/mode RF transceiver. And Qualcomm MDM6610 chip. iPhone 4S leading HSPA and CDMA radio features found separately in the two previous iPhone model 4 in one product, so the phone world and is available to AT & T, Verizon, Sprint network. Apple may offer the simpler for the first time since RTR8605 transceiver, according to Wayne Lam, an analyst at IHS iSuppli.
Storage / NAND Flash Chip: A Toshiba 16GB multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash memory chips, such as those found in both iPad MLC is generally less expensive than single-level cell (SLC) flash but not so fast.
Accelerometer: accelerometer is the same device as in 2 iPad after Chipworks - which LIS331DLH STMicroelectronics. Nano "The LIS331DLH high performance ultra-low power MEMS three-axis linear accelerometer is from the" family ", with I2C/SPI serial digital output interface standard," said Chip Works.
Gyroscope: A L3G4200D STMicroelectronics. Previously found in the iPad 2 and after Chipworks.

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